THE NUTCRACKER | online

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THE NUTCRACKER | Recording of the performance

Ballet in two acts by Peter Tchaikovsky

Choreography and Staging by Aivars Leimanis 

Conductor Mārtiņš Ozoliņš
Set and Costume Designer Aleksandrs Vasiļjevs

Audiences will be offered a chance to view a fresh recording from December 2020. It will be available online from 20 December 2020 until 10 January 2021. When purchasing the ticket, you’ll receive an e-mail with a link to the recording and an access code. In the set time frame each recording will be available an unlimited number of times.

Tchaikovsky composed this fairy tale ballet in the late 19th century, inspired by E. T. A. Hoffmann’s fairy tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”.  The storyline in the Latvian National Ballet’s production is developed against the background of 19th century Riga. On Christmas Eve, little Maria receives a Nutcracker doll as a Christmas present. Toys under the Christmas tree come to life and exciting adventures begin: an army of mice invade the room, the Nutcracker turns into a prince, frees Maria from the mice an takes her to the fairy tale land.

Cast:

Maria – Jūlija Brauere

Prince Nutcracker – Kārlis Cīrulis

Performance was recorded with the support of State Culture Capital Foundation.